Several studies have found seasonal and temporal variability in leaf photosynthesis parameters in different crops. Poirier-Pocovi et al. use six-year-old fruit-bearing branches of ten-year-old apple trees to study and...
Tag - Malus domestica
botanyone
Has spring sprung yet?
It's not just humans waiting for Spring - recent research reveals that microbes are also looking forward to the new growth of plants.
Nigel Chaffey
Choosing the correct candidate gene (two Viewpoint papers)
This is an exciting time to study how different non-model species use common developmental genes to create such diversity in the plant world. In many cases researchers tend to identify, within newly available sequences...
Modelling fruit temperature dynamics in apple
Although fruit temperature is known to be a key parameter involved in fruit quality, sunburn injury and pest development, no specific modelling approach to it has been developed. Saudreau et al. generate a model based...
